Those all sound great but got me wondering. Do you owe submitters a duty of care when in posession of unpublished manuscripts? Would there be any ramifications of losing a Kindle with that kind of stuff on it?

Claire, no.There's no implied or explicit expectation of confidentiality in a manuscript submission. We discard pages all the time, which is no different than discarding (unintentionally of course) a Kindle.

Given that the manuscript is uploaded from a word .doc that remains on my hard drive, any loss is momentary at best as well.

As to the idea a lost Kindle would give someone access to a manuscript they would then plagiarize...well, sure, I guess, but there's about the same liklihood of that as of me being selected Miss America.

I'm still on the fence. A woman on the train had her Sony reader out, so I quizzed her about the features. I have to say that I'm still leaning towards the Kindle, but the e-Reader has some good qualities too.

I'm glad to hear your take on the Kindle and hopefully I'll decide soon.

I'm on the fence with Kindle as well. One the one hand you have the nice large screen, on the other hand, it looks like it's been made for elderly people. Then you have the easy bookstore access . . and DRM. You get a free connection, but it's EVDO. It supports popular formats, but no PDFs.

I'd also like more storage and the ability to expand using my own storage medium (SD Card). I know you can store about 200 books, but I need more for my $360 ;)

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